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DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

About the author:

 Antonio De Morga Sanchez Garay
 November 29 1559- July 21 1636
 A Spanish soldier, lawyer, and a high-ranking colonial official in
the Philippines for 43 years. (1594-1604)
 Become a deputy Governor in the Philippines and re-established
the audienca and took the function of judge oider.

Definition of terms:
 Annotations: a note of explanation or comment added to a text or
a diagram.
 Sucesos: events, happenings or occurrences.
 Las islas filipinas: the philippines island
 Sucesos de las islas filipinas: events in the Philippine islands.

About sucesos de las islas filipinas:

 It is one of the important works of the Philippines about the
colonization of Spain, published by Antonio de Morga in 1609.
 Explains the political, socia and economical aspects of a colonizer
and the colonized country.
 The book is based on the experience and observation of Antonio
Morga.
 Annoted by Jose Rizal with a proloque by Dr. Ferdinand
Blumentritt.
Rizal’ purpose of annoting Morga’s work:
 Awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos regarding their glorious
ways of the past.
 Correct what has been distorted about the Philippines due to
Spanish conquest.
 Prove that Filipinos are civilized or advances even before the
coming of the Spaniards.

Why Jose Rizal chose Morga’s work?

 The original book was rare.
 Morga is to be more objective than the other religious writers.
 Morga was more sympathetic to the indios.
 Morga was not only an eyewitness but a major actor in the events
he narrates.

Blumentritt’s influence on Rizal.

He encouraged Rizal to write about the Philippines pre-colonial
history.

On Rizal’s annotation the first objective: The early Filipino Pride

Rizal strove to establish that the Filipinos could be proud of their
pre-conquest past.

Second objective:
- History as a propaganda weapon
Rizal aimed to use history as a propaganda weapon.
- Early Government
Our forefathers in the pre-colonial Philippines already possessed a
working judicial and legislative system.
- High literacy rate
The Spanish missionaries exploited the baybayin for their own ends,
learning and using it ti translate their goals.
- Early Artillery
Our ancestors were very proficient in the art of war. Aside for wielding
swords and spears, they also knew how to make a fire guns and
cannons.
- Smooth foreign relations
The pre-colonial filipinos had alread established trading and
diplomatic relations with countries as far as the middle east.
- Self- sufficient
In terms of food, our forefathers did not suffer from any lack thereof.
Blessed with such a resource-rich country, they had enough for
themselves and their families.
- Advance civilization
Our ancestors possessed a complex working society and a cultural
replete with works of arts and literature.

Important points
 Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle the
Philippine history.
 The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of
a colonizer and the colonized country.
 The book that describes the events inside and outside the country
from 1493 to 1603.
 The pre-colonial Philippines already possessed a working judicial
and legislative system.
 Spanish missionaries put an end to the baybayin written system of
the Philippines to translate their goals.
 Our ancestors possessed a complex society and culture filled with
arts and literature.
MORGA AND RIZAL’S PERSONAL VIEW ABOUT THE ISLAND,
PEOPLE AND CULTURE.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

MORGA
 the natives of Luzon are
tribes from which they
cannot be assume to be safe,
as they are bound of
pacifying in either good or
violent means.
 Natives such as Bisaya draws
tattoo patterns first before
putting black powder where
to blood oozes.
RIZAL
 They will always pick violence
in response to those who do
not submit to the friars until
the government is involved
due to their cruel ways.
 Rizal agreed to his views
bound to the relations in
Mindanao Island.

CLOTHING

MORGA RIZAL
 They wore “bahaque” around  Bahag is a rich colored cloth
their waists, and their brows and quite often with gold
were wrapped with a stripes and they put moro
prototong. style like a turban.

FOOD

MORGA
 They consume beef and
seafood that has started to
rot and stink, which they
know is the finest.
RIZAL
 Morga discusses a fish that
can’t be good till it starts to
rot. Bagoong was noted, and
everyone who has eaten or
tasted it knows that it should
not be rotten.
 DRINKING

MORGA
 native people consume a lot
of alcohol. During wedding
feasts, they all become
drunk.
RIZAL
 Rizal cited Father Colin, who
said that while it is common
knowledge that they drink a
lot, they can always find their
way home after a party or a
feast, no matter how
inebriated they look to be.

GOVERNMENT

MORGA RIZAL

 There were no kings, queens,  It stated that the Philippine

or lords to govern over the island at that time considered
many barrios or provinces. to have chiefs within its
natives.

MARRIAGES FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD

MORGA RIZAL
 The groom provides a dowry  A filipina wife supports her
that his parents gave him. husband without being
Until she inherits from her considered a burden.
parents, the bride does not
have anything.
 The house where the parents  In tagalog, a house is called
and children is called pamamahay.
bahandin.
 The wife married to a native  It is then cited that asawa is
man is called insawa. the counterpart term that
morga noted.
 RELIGION/ HEALERS

MORGA devil in order to predict

 There was no priest or whether the ill person would
religious leader to deal with live or die.
religious concerns. They
believed in idols and RIZAL
superstitions, which they  There were no priest called
were led to believe by the catalona or baybayin.

IMPOTRANCE OF RIZAL’S ANNOTATIONS TO THE PRESENT

GENERATION.

 To awaken in the Filipinos the consciousness of our past.

 To devote ourselves to studying the future.
 To first lay bare the past, in order to better judge the present and
to survey the road trodden during 3 centuries.
 To prove Filipinos had a culture of their own, prior to colonization,
that the Filipinos were not inferior to the white man.
 To shatter the myth of the so-called “indolence of the Filipinos”.
 To reduce those Filipinos who denied their native tongue into
rotten fish.
 To seriously study tagalog and produce a comprehensive tagalog
dictionary.
 To embrace the generic term “indio”, or in today’s case, Filipino,
with all its negative connotations, an turn into one of dignity and
nobility.